China and Vietnam lead the world in primate exports

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IPPL has obtained from the US Government a LEMIS spread-sheet showing

the numbers of monkeys imported to the United States in 2009. Anyone

interested in receiving a copy of the full spread-sheet to work on it

some more, please contact IPPL (info). Each shipment is

reported separately. The crab-eating macaque is not native to China

and all animals exported from China were either wild-caught or

descended from wild-caught animals and there are suspicions that

wild-caught animals imported to China from other nations are imported

on false captive-born documents which is difficult to investigate or

prove. Attempts to obtain parallel data from Customs and CDC for

comparison have failed to date. Note that no baboons were imported

and no monkeys from India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, or Nepal. Some US

companies are establishing labs in Asia. The largest single exporter

is the Nafovanny company, Vietnam.

 

Total number of monkeys reaching the United States in 2009: 22,098

 

China 13158

Mauritius, 3199

Vietnam 3118

Cambodia 1080

Indonesia 480

Saint Kitts and Nevis 372

Philippines 300

Israel 240

Barbados 72

Peru 20

France 16

Guatemala 16

Guyana 14

Japan 6

New Zealand 3

Great Britain 2

United States (2, re-import)

 

Species (numbers under 10 omitted)

 

Crab-eating macaque, 19979

Rhesus macaque, 596

African green), 154

Owl monkey, 20

Spider monkey), 16

Mouse lemur, 15

Saki, 14

 

Sorted by Foreign Exporters (companies shipping less than 20 omitted)

 

Nafovanny 3118 (Vietnam)

Huazheng Laboratory Animal Breeding Centre 2558 (China)

Guangxi Weimei Bio-Tech 1800 (China)

Bioculture 1631 (Mauritius)

Guangzhou Blooming Spring Biotech 1460 (China)

Hainan Jinjang Lab Animal Co. 1149 (China)

Beijing Puliyuan Trading 1149 (China)

Angkor Primates Inc. 1080 (Cambodia)

Yunnan Lab Primate 1021 (China)

Noveprim 700 (Mauritius)

Biodia 588 (Mauritius)

Guangdong Landau Biotechnology 578 (China)

China National Scientific Instruments 540 (China)

Wing Freight 480 (China)

CV Inquatex 360 (Indonesia)

Fang Cheng Gang Spring Biotech 360 (China)

Scientific Primates Filipinas, 300 (Philippines)

Les Campeches 260 (Mauritius)

Gaoyao Kangda Lab Animals Science and Technology 252 (China)

B.F.C - Monkey Breeding Farm 240 (Israel)

Beijing Grandforest 240 (China)

Tianjin Jinxin Import/Export 240 (China)

Primate Resources International 214 (St. Kitts)

St. Kitts Biomedical Research Foundation 122 (St. Kitts)

Beijing Ultimate Bioscience Co. 120 (China)

Biomedical Research RESEARCH (GZ), 120 (China)

Guangdong Scientific Instruments and Materials 120 (China)

Guangxi Grandforest Scientific Primate Co. 120 (China)

Pt. Wanara Satwaloka 120 (Indonesia)

Suzhou Jin Nuo Import/Export Co. 120 (China)

Conghua City Yueyuan Animal Breeding Farm at Qigan 120 (China)

DF Import/Export 110 (China)

Yongfu County Xingui Yesheng 109 (China)

Barbados Primate Research Center 108 (Barbados)

Conghua City Yueyuan Animal Breeding Farm 61 (China)

Instituto de Investigaciones Tropicales y de Altura 20 (Peru)

Sanofi Pasteur, 20 (France)

 

Sorted by U.S. Importer (those importing under 20 animals omitted)

 

Covance Research Products 9436

Charles River Laboratories, BRF 6436

SNBL-USA Ltd. 2040

Worldwide Primates 1007

Primate Products 848

Harlan Labs 779

Shared Enterprises 420

New Iberia Research Center, University of Louisiana 300

Valley Biosystems 262

Buckshire Corporation 181

Alphagenesis Inc. 178

Three Springs Scientific, 80

Wake Forest Univ. School of Medicine 42

Sanofi Pasteur 20

 

By port of entry

 

Los Angeles, CA, 14623

Chicago, IL, 3717

New York, NY, 2914

Miami, FL, 454

San Francisco, CA 300

Buffalo, NY, 76

Atlanta, GA, 14

 

996 monkeys were reported as " wild-caught " : 5277 " Born in captivity

(F1 + generations) " and 15825 as " captive-bred. "

 

 

Dr. Shirley McGreal, OBE, Chairwoman

International Primate Protection League

POB 766

Summerville SC 29484, USA

E-mail: smcgreal

Ph. 843-871-2280: Fax: 843-871-7988: www.ippl.org

 

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